Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Transformational Play are hoping a virtual ...

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the planet’s ...

The weathering and dissolution of evaporite minerals and silicate minerals were the main sources of the hydrochemical components, and also the main controlling factors for the hydrochemical evolution ...

The deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea, Calypso Deep, was found to be a bit of a dump. That's surprising because we don't ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

A team of international researchers has made a sobering discovery at the Calypso Deep, the deepest known point of the ...

Photo by Mishka Espey Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) crews responded to a Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission filtration plant in Potomac after a worker fell in a basin ...

1 College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China ... The Oujiang River is located in the south of Zhejiang Province, China. The basin ranges from 118°45′E - 121°00′E and ...

thanks to erosion depositing unfathomably large amounts of sediment into the ocean basin on deep time scales. Instead, we found an underwater landscape far more varied than expected. The abyssal ...

A 2022 peer-reviewed study of available research by leading deep-sea scientists found “no or next to no scientific knowledge” for most of the seabed targeted for mining. NEW PLAYERS IN THE DEBATE ...

They may be “abundant” and “abundantly large” in polar regions due to “deep-sea gigantism”, a phenomenon of several deep-sea animals growing larger than their shallow-water relatives.

As companies seek to extract critical minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies from the deep sea, a showdown is underway over when and whether to allow mining of ...